Actor Amitabh Bachchan has reacted to racial attacks on Indian students in Australia by rejecting an honourary doctorate offered to him by an Australian university.The Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, had offered the 66-year-old veteran a doctorate for his contribution to the world of entertainment and Bachchan had earlier accepted the title. "I have been witnessing, with great dismay and shock, the recent violent attacks on Indian students," wrote Bachchan.
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Police harassed superstar Amitabh Bachchan and favoured people like Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi alleged on Friday. Azmi claimed Bachchan was forced to withdraw a case of attack on his bungalow in Mumbai during the anti-north Indian campaign led by the Raj's party.
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Showering praise on Marathi and Maharashtra, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Sunday said he was indebted to the state which shaped his destiny and gave him name and fame.
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The Chennai Express actor threw a star-studded bash at his Bandra residence over the weekend.
The Chennai Express actor threw a star-studded bash at his Bandra residence over the weekend.
The 77-year-old actor, who was admitted to Nanavati hospital along with son Abhishek after testing positive for COVID-19 on July 11, expressed his gratitude to well-wishers for their continued support and prayers.
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Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is undergoing treatment in the Lilavati Hospital for abdominal pain, is recuperating and is on a liquid diet, a hospital spokesperson said on Wednesday.
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In an exclusive interview to Bhupinder Chaubey of CNN-IBN, Bachchan denied that he was suffering because of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
Thackeray distanced himself from remarks made in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Samana that praised Tamil superstar Rajnikanth, who had his early life in Karnataka, for his stand on the Hogenakkal issue. It said it had 'dwarfed' Bachchan when it came to taking a firm position on issues relating to Maharashtra. Thackeray said the actor was a family friend.
Amitabh Bachchan shoots for a Kalyan Jewellers ad, alongwith Malayalam actress Manju Warrier.
The star was accompanied by her parents Vrinda and Krishnaraj Rai, husband Abhishek Bachchan and in-laws Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan and Shweta Nanda.
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Actor Amitabh Bachchan on Friday utilised the reinstatement of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Director P Venugopal to take another dig at Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, with whom the actor had had a war of words over on-screen smoking. "Minister Ramadoss has had a bad day today," Bachchan said in his blog. The Bollywood superstar had hit out at the Union Health Minister earlier in his blog.
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'After the first Kantara, when they announced the second one, I kind of knew he will call me. I had this instinct. Then he called me at midnight and I didn't pick up. I was like, I'm not talking to anybody at 12 at night. The following day, I called and we chatted. He said, I have to narrate you something. I said, I know, it's Kantara!'
'I could tell there was an extraordinary intensity about Amitabh Bachchan even in bad films.' 'Kuch baat thi.' 'Salim saab and I insisted on casting him in Zanjeer.'
Abhishek, his father, megastar Amitabh Bachchan, actor-wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and daughter Aaradhya Bachchan were all admitted at the isolation ward of the Nanavati Hospital here after they tested positive for COVID-19 in July.
The actor, who turns 66 on Saturday, had slight fever on Friday night following which his stomach started paining. Sources close to the actor said Bachchan had gone to the hospital for a regular check-up.
Samajwadi Party leader Jaya Bachchan on Friday said there was no need for her husband Amitabh Bachchan to apologise for attending the inauguration of the Bandra-Worli sea-link, which has triggered a controversy in Maharashtra politics.
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